A short book describing the life of a sickly child growing up in a dystopian Tokyo. It seems that the elderly cannot die, and the children are all born sickly, barely able to walk.
A disturbing read and well worth a few hours
Saturday, 23 June 2018
Yoko Tawada - The Last Children of Tokyo
Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子 Tawada Yōko, born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. She writes in both Japanese and German, making her an exophonicwriter.[1] Tawada has won numerous Japanese and German literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Noma Literary Prize, the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Goethe Medal, and the Kleist Prize.
A short book describing the life of a sickly child growing up in a dystopian Tokyo. It seems that the elderly cannot die, and the children are all born sickly, barely able to walk.
A disturbing read and well worth a few hours
A short book describing the life of a sickly child growing up in a dystopian Tokyo. It seems that the elderly cannot die, and the children are all born sickly, barely able to walk.
A disturbing read and well worth a few hours
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